If tape backup is an essential component of your disaster recovery strategy, then offsite tape archiving will often be as well. One of the classic tape backup risks is leaving the tapes onsite, where any disaster that wipes out your systems will do the same to your tapes. Basic disaster recovery strategy dictates that tapes…
Having a plan for data backup as part of your disaster recovery strategy is the right thing to do, but it’s not the end of the story. Too many organisations have planned their data backups, only to find in situations of emergency that the backups were unavailable or insufficient. The reasons can be varied, but…
If the city where your business runs is hosting the Olympic Games or similar, then you’ll be facing a one-off exceptional event. As such, you may need to take exceptional measures in order to ensure business continuity. For events of this magnitude, organisers or municipal agencies often produce continuity guidelines to help avoid the worst…
Discussions about whether to go for disk or tape as a back-up medium are frequent, but there’s still no knock-out result one way or the other.
In this searchcio.com article, Anthony Caruana highlights a recent IDC study which found that only one third (1/3) of the orgianisations surveyed could recovery more than half of their systems in real time. Worse still, only one in nine (9) believed they could restore any systems in realtime. Anthony then provides eight tips for designing…
Awareness is growing around the importance of risk management, and IT’s involvement in ensuring compliance. A special ARN report. Risk management should be high on the list of priorities right now. If organisations and boards didn’t realise its importance previously, the natural disasters of Queensland, Victoria, Perth, Christchurch, Japan, and, most recently, Myanmar (it’s been…